OFFICIAL 2015-2016 College Football Season Thread

The Dome is rumored to get a major face-lift too right? 

Cuse should rehire Marrone. 

Board of Directors is going to visit the issue next month. Everything from a new roof to a new arena is on the table with the latter least likely to happen because Syverud is trying to bring down expenses. There are already new digital displays throughout.

Marrone pretty much burned every bridge on his way out. Coyle isn't going to bring him back especially since he was a Gross hire.
 
You son of a....

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Nah you know I'm kidding.

But real talk Herman is legitimately an offensive genius. That dude will be successful wherever he goes. I mean Cardale has been buns this year but our offense looks horrid compared to how he had it running last year
 
[h1]Brady Hoke: No way I would have punted[/h1]
The ex-Michigan coach said he would not have punted on fourth down against Michigan State: "Personally, if we have the No. 1 defense in the nation, I'm going to test those guys."
 
[h1]Brady Hoke: No way I would have punted[/h1]

The ex-Michigan coach said he would not have punted on fourth down against Michigan State: "Personally, if we have the No. 1 defense in the nation, I'm going to test those guys."

LOL alrite bro
 
[h1]Brady Hoke: No way I would have punted[/h1]

The ex-Michigan coach said he would not have punted on fourth down against Michigan State: "Personally, if we have the No. 1 defense in the nation, I'm going to test those guys."

Of course he wouldn't have punted.

Because he woulda been down double digits thus he'd be trying to score.
 
Who leaves Miss State for SU?
If Cuse is willing to pay a competitive salary a for a HC and a staff, I think Cuse is a better job than MSST.  Probably not a better enough job to actually leave, but I do think it's a better job. 

MSST is the second or third worst job in the SEC.  Probably the second when you factor in the unrealistic expectations the fanbase has for the program.  
 
He currently makes $3.2M. This isn't a realistic hire, but he'd have to take a slight pay cut. Of course, the expectations are just making a bowl game and being relatively competitive.
 
 
 [h1]Brady Hoke: No way I would have punted[/h1]

The ex-Michigan coach said he would not have punted on fourth down against Michigan State: "Personally, if we have the No. 1 defense in the nation, I'm going to test those guys."
Of course he wouldn't have punted.

Because he woulda been down double digits thus he'd be trying to score.
To his credit, down 1 point to Ohio State, with an extra point to tie and send it to OT, he went for the kill. So I don't doubt he wouldn't have gone for it on 4th there :lol:
 
Is that current? :lol: Sparty gets no respect.

Oh wait I see the score of the game at the bottom.
 
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@Th3RealF0lkBlu3s.

There's talk of people close to Mique saying he's a coaching hire dependent strong lean to USC again.

Optimistic fans are using his Twitter feed and him openly rooting hard for SC against ND as supportive of that.

I'm entirely too lazy to check his page or other boards to see for myself but figured I'd share :lol:
 
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Need a close win for Clemson vs um & them not to blow the game vs NCSU + FSU not to choke vs GT/Cuse so that it will be an undefeated top 10 match up on 11/7
 
Two future Wolverine greats face off tomorrow night on espn 2.

cool
PSL CG between CT and MLK is tomorrow too.  I wish they were televising it, or at least streaming it online. 

Still debating whether I should go or not 
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Need a close win for Clemson vs um & them not to blow the game vs NCSU + FSU not to choke vs GT/Cuse so that it will be an undefeated top 10 match up on 11/7
Wouldn't mind beating Clemson, and then losing to Virginia so it's clear that Golden should be out. 
 
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FB post by former SC and SF LB Riki Ellison.  He goes in on Pat Haden.
As a parent of the Captain of the USC football team, a USC scholarship student athlete Rhett Ellison who had a USC Leadership award named after him, graduated along with a master’s degree from USC when Pat Haden was first hired over his first three years and as a USC graduate, USC alumnus, lifetime fan from 1968, and a David Marks scholar, a 4 year starter of the USC football teams from 1978 to 1982, winning a National Championship, two rose bowls, I firmly believe that Pat Haden in his current continued position as Athletic Director needs to step down and step aside. Pat Haden’s failed leadership is severely damaging the future of the USC football program to recruit the best players and the hiring of a great head coach, his incompetency in leadership is negligent to the current and past football student athletes experiences at USC and his unaccountable leadership has tarnished the global/national public perception of the University of Southern California. Pat Haden and his best friend/teammate JK McKay who is directly responsible to Pat Haden for the USC football program need to step aside, freeze the Head Football Coach hiring decision until a new Athletic Director is found and wait until the NFL/College football seasons are over to have full access to all coaching availabilities in their search for a new Head Coach. There is little chance that great or good recruits and their families will entrust and choose to join a football program that Pat Haden and JK McKay are in charge of over the great College Football programs with strong, respected and stable leadership elsewhere in the country. USC has lost through the clearly identifying results of the last 6 years of Athletic Director incompetent leadership, its credibility to recruit outstanding character and value high school players. Pat Haden’s neophyte Athletic Director skills coupled with his lack of consequences and reactive leadership to run a top national football program has been a disaster. No other major football program, its student athletes in the NCAA have ever gone through the turmoil, instability of 5 Head Football Coaches within a span of 3 years. Beyond the obvious outrageous miss management and devastating bad hiring decision of a diseased Head Coach, Sark, Pat Haden’s egregious public behavior as an Athletic Director at Stanford USC game last year and his continual lack of consequences and confrontation inside the Athletic Department to his employees and student athletes, he has destroyed the USC football culture as we have known it. He has ruined the experience of close to 200 student athletes on football scholarship and their families giving them a diseased head coach for their leadership role model and no stable leadership. 

- Pat Haden has stripped out our USC football culture. He deliberately intentionally segregated and drastically severed the USC football alumni, former players, and ex NFL players that played for USC from his football teams that he oversaw as the Athletic Director. None of the preemptive irresponsible decisions made by Pat Haden in the exclusion of ex USC players were mandated or required by the NCAA in its sanctions of USC. These were self-enforced and self-imposed by Pat Haden and has broken the tie, the culture passing, the proud tradition of our former players with our current players that has always been an important critical part of that program. No other program in the NCAA Division 1 has disallowed its entire football alumni from attending practices and seeing the current football student athletes then what Pat Haden has done. He has purposely established a tremendous gap of disassociation between USC ex-players and the university itself, those same players that built the USC football program and the successes it has had. Think about who these young players that play football for USC today look up to and see their lives emulate to. The answer -are the ex-players, the products of the University of Southern California Football program and there are so many great ones in so many fields, successful in so many areas all over the nation living strong with what they learned at USC playing football. What a ridiculous policy and reasoning by the University Athletic Director that eliminated that access and support system for the current student athletes to help them be successful. That intentional misguided policy also brings direct associated guilt from Pat Haden on the ex USC football players for the NCAA sanctions placed on its school. Further this complete disastrous policy has helped made USC become a NFL proto-type program under Pat Haden where the motivation is to go to USC to play in the NFL not to play for USC, losing its core competency of the best message carriers of USC successful ex-players that played for the love of USC to see, talk to meet and be engaged with the current and future players. It is truly absurd and to take it to new heights, Pat Haden keeps going with the ludicrous security of finger prints scanning machines to get into the football facility. What other school in this country does this??? Not even our Military Academies. We went from a century of open door locker room Trojan Family trust that instilled our culture to a cold behemoth NFL type facility.

It is disgraceful and disrespectful for a parent of a USC football student athlete to go through an intense impersonal cold security check every day to get into watch practice of your son, if your USC staff does not even know your names of the parents and know them by sight let alone being friendly and warm there is no relationship of your coaching staff, your athletic department with your parents of your players, you have become a NFL franchise that is how they do it. Then to be roped off and not allowed to take pictures of your sons with your I phone and having the phones confiscated by the security is absolutely insane. My family including myself went through this horrendous experience and policy’s put down unilaterally by Pat Haden for 3 years. What is the reasonably logic besides a false perception to the NCAA. Pat Haden has no clue nor has his inner circle of village idiots for all this inhumane security and keeping the "bad guys" out, yet 400 yards away on Saturday home games at the tunnel of the Coliseum every "Bad Guy" agent, runner, alumni supporters and even his so called biggest concern of X players that want to meet and get close to a current player and his family is completely free to do so. What irony and duel messaging. So the whole practice security is a facade of grand proportions that again believe it was self-imposed by Haden rather than NCAA sanction required. 

- From all points Pat Haden looks to have had a leadership strategy to squarely blame the culture of USC football for the NCAA sanctions and to break its traditional strength and culture in neutering it which must have gotten a go ahead from the President of the University. In his tactical polices of pillaging the program of any USC allegiance, loyalty and old school coaching that brings to fold the legacies of why you play for USC, he directly took out USC's best coaches that were loyal to USC and where the leaders of the coaching staffs to the players who they were revered and loved by. That would include Kennedy Pola, Coach O and Coach Baxter to name a few that he cleared out and then to hire a complete mercenary UW staff with Sark that has not one single coach on that staff today coaching our USC student athletes that has any legitimate history of playing for USC or for being a part of USC and loving the school, thereby has no truth to go and find USC players that love the school like they do and can bring in those special players that are not all whatever’s on some website. This tactic again reverberates the shift from a USC centric Football program to a NFL program where there is no association with the coaching staff and the University other than a mercenary paid position from another University under revolving head coaches. The current players know who those USC Culture coaches are and loved them like heroes and like their dads. Pat Haden took away again the best role models for his student athletes and put in the worst role model you could have for a Head Coach. Then you have to ask and question their implementation of their leadership strategy of disassociation of USC football and if this is the direction, why in the world would you hire Sark who is directly part of the program that was sanctioned by the NCAA. Why ask Pete Carroll and take his advice who is directly implicated by the NCAA for sanctions on USC. Which of his village idiots of his inner circle was giving him the advice on that? 

- As to Pat Haden gloating about increasing GPAs of the student athletes over his reign, I would be deliberate in the accountability of millions and millions of USC funding going into an Academic Athletic Center with tutors and support. Is not the goal for the academic institution to focus on graduation of your student athletes as your top priority? What are the graduation rates of USC football student athletes under Pat Haden’s reign that are on football scholarships not walk on regular student players? Should Pat Haden not be gloating about that? Why have I been told directly by head of the NFL player development, Troy Vincent that USC has if not the lowest, one of the lowest graduation rates in all of the NCAA for African American football scholarship athletes. As a parent, as an Alumnus and as a former USC football scholarship athlete, I am absolutely dismayed and appalled at USC Athletics and Pat Haden for not knowing and properly identifying who their graduating USC football student athletes are. Which clearly shows by intent that their priority is on USC football student eligibility GPAs over graduation. As a parent of my son, a USC student, a Football Team Captain for USC, a Leadership award winner for USC, a graduate of USC not to have him officially on the graduation program, in the ceremony, on the press releases, and in their pamphlets at Official USC Athletic Graduation Ceremony that my family and friends attended in celebration of this great achievement, far greater to us than his football achievements was pure blunt negligence, incompetence and beyond disrespectful on so many levels by the Athletic Director, Rhode Scholar and former USC football player/captain Pat Haden who has ultimate responsibility. If you don’t recognize the achievement of graduation, why even have a University to learn and graduate from. Added to that, there were more players than Rhett that were not recognized and to have it done to a USC parent that played for USC and graduated from USC or to any USC parent is beyond reproach. Yes, I addressed it bluntly and directly to Pat Haden 30 mins before the ceremony started, so they were forced to make adjustments in the agenda and ad lib putting him on stage with the rest of the student athlete graduates. The programs did not include him which was pure embarrassment to my family and friends, the LA times did not have him listed on the paper the next day as a graduate with the other student athletes. Yes they were forced to reprint me copies of the program with Rhett's name in it and have the LA Times be corrected for his name to be included. In addition to all of this, Pat Haden and USC Athletics had the gall to have a former USC football player that did not graduate and came back 20 or so years later to graduate to make the commencement speech. What message does that send to your student athletes? 

- The public perception, the caliber, the environment and the play of USC football today is worse off than at the peak of the NCAA sanctions and when Pat Haden was brought in and given the leadership role and mission to provide a new public perception of USC Football to the nation and our alumni/supporters. It is clearly evidenced by the Notre Dame game over the weekend which our team fielded as not looked this bad since when Pete Carroll came to rescue the program. Pat Haden has failed in this mission as the USC football program is in shatters from close to six years of his leadership.

- The USC football program has lost its essence, its identity and its historic culture of what it once has been completely dismantled deliberately under the direction and leadership of Pat Haden who is getting an estimate total revenue of 3.6 million a year for his leadership of the USC football program and Athletic Department, the highest paid Athletic Director in the NCAA. 

- As to the estimated 3.4 million dollar a year Sark hiring decision made by Pat Haden, the highest paid employee of the USC other that than himself, I met with a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Washington several times prior to the hiring of Sark, he made it very clear that they had issues with his character at the role of their head coach. I provided that direct assessment to the USC Athletic Department several times as a concerned alumnus prior to them offering the job to Sark, it was ignored. I also met with Coach Peterson in person in his first month as the UW Head Coach and asked him about the interview he had with Pat Haden who flew out to see him in Boise before meeting with Sark. He did not get offered the job nor was even seriously considered in the interview as they felt he was not media savvy enough for USC and had already made up their mind on Sark. I met with Jack Del Rio, my teammate and classmate at USC, earlier this year in person after he took the job for the Raiders and he was not offered the job by Pat Haden either though quickly interviewed by USC and he told me he would of taken the job if it was offered to him. Pat Haden pulled out some excuse on could not wait until January because of recruiting to Jack. Jack was by far and away, leaps and bounds, the best coaching candidate for USC not even in the same hemisphere as Sark in character, integrity, football and USC legacy. It was Pat Haden’s ego, the same ego today that is keeping him in the job that would not enable him to hire Jack as Jack would be as good as Pete maybe better, but in a different way, bigger in image than the AD and bigger in image than the President of the University with his success that would of taken place. Pat Haden used recruiting as the way out and look where we are today. A legitimate recruit and parent would not dare take a chance at going to USC today after what Pat Haden has done and is still doing as the Athletic Director of the University of Southern California. What is also absurd about the Sark hire is that Pat Haden nor his Athletic Staff did not reach out and ask former recent players for their opinions and advice, the players that played underneath Sark as a coordinator at USC. For most of the players had little or no respect for Sark in his offensive coordinator position in the lack of character he displayed along with the way he treated them. Why was there not a reaching out from Pat Haden to the USC Captain of the Team and the first ever Leadership Award, Rhett Ellison and his teammates for their opinions or thoughts on Sark. They played underneath Sark and were not even a year removed from the program playing in the NFL. And to that matter why is there a complete void of relationship, trust and earnest contact between the most successful recent USC football players playing in the NFL today and the USC Athletic Director and Department?

- Pat Haden does not have the skill sets or experience to lead one of the nation's greatest football programs. He continues to make bad leadership decisions for the University of Southern California dependent on his misguided inner circle trusted confidants because he is reliant and dependent on them for his lack of actual working experience of being an actual Athletic Director or any relevant experience such as being a head coach at a major sports program at a NCAA University with the necessary skills and experience required for this job.

- Pat Haden has a great relationship with the President of the University, his boss, as Pat Haden was a former Trustee that the President reported to and helped to place him as President. The situation is now reversed where Pat reports to the President and the Trustees that he knows well. This dysfunctional environment makes it challenging for the President who has little depth of College Football and the trustees to influence, guide and confront Pat Haden of his duties.

- Pat Haden is the only USC Athletic Director in the history of USC to fire all four of his head coaches in revenue making sports for the University, leaving those programs in turmoil. Pat Haden's 10 national championships that he claims under his reign as Athletic Director have all but one, the Women’s outdoor sand volleyball have been won by coaches he did not hire or were responsible for hiring.

- How does the President of the University of Southern California and its trustees expect to build a reputable program, have its football scholar athletes graduate from the University as a critical focus, recruit players of character and talent to have a championship football caliber program when you have an incompetent Athletic Director that is responsible and has done what he has done to the USC football program? The USC Football program is reflective to the nation and globally of USC, its students, its teachers, its spirit, its culture. It too is a magnification of a classroom to the world on how you teach and treat your students. Would any Dean, any Professor at the University of Southern California be still employed and enabled to teach and administer USC students and Staff by the President of the University and its Trustees if they have done what Pat Haden and Sark have done?

Any one that would continue to support Pat Haden in his position does not have the best interests of USC or of the football program or that person does support Pat Haden they must be receiving benefits from the relationships, power and influence of 120 million dollar annual Athletic budget and a 3.6 million a year Athletic Director.

No fundraising capability to provide endowments and buildings to USC can replace the experiences of 6 years being subjected to the incompetence and toxic leadership of Pat Haden. USC students Matter, Development of USC students matter and new buildings, large endowments will never measure up to the power of developed USC students by good leaders. 

It beyond the time, decency, reasonability for the President of the University of Southern California to make the right decision. 

Pat Haden must step down.

Riki Ellison
 Doug Lesmerises ‏@DougLesmerises  12h12 hours ago
What if Rutgers owned Jersey recruiting like Ohio State owns Ohio? Check out this great could-be Rutgers depth chart http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2015/10/what_would_rutgers_starting_li.html#incart_river
 SEC Country ‏@seccountry  7h7 hours ago
Steve Spurrier signs with CAA, broadcast work in his future? http://trib.al/5qRIYG3  
 
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